Glasgow's architecture is a mixed bag - modern rubs shoulders with classical, and the high rises peer above them all - and we love it that way.

The city boasts some pretty impressive buildings from Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum to our very own Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's prolific architectural output. One thing is for sure, this city of ours could never be called boring to look at.

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Anderston Church

Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church was finished in 1968 and the striking building with its pyramid wood and glass roof has remained a pleasure to view ever since. Sitting in the centre of an inner city housing estate, it is a key figure in post-war architecture of the Brutalist style with its concrete tower and green and white detailing.

Gartloch Hospital

Endlessly creepy, you couldn't pay us enough money to hang out in the abandoned Gartloch Hospital, a former insane asylum that closed its doors in 1996. The hospital has been derelict ever since and despite its ever-increasing state of decay, the building, in the French-renaissance style, still holds shades of its former glory.

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Springburn Winter Gardens

Springburn Winter Gardens is looking a bit sorry for itself these days. The derelict greenhouse was in built in 1900 when Springburn was a booming industrial area and is the largest of its kind in Scotland. The structure has been derelict since 1985 but thankfully a campaign has been established to restore it to its former glory.

The Sixty Steps

Designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson in the 1870s, the Sixty Steps in the west end were built to provide access to the now no longer Queen Margaret Bridge. The steps and adjoining wall are in need of considerable restoration so that they can continue to be used and enjoyed by the public. For more information or to donate, click here.

St Simons, Partick

This distinctive little gothic church and adjoining presbytery on Partick Bridge Street was established in 1858 by the same priest that taught intrepid explorer, David Livingstone, Latin. During the Second World War the church, by then used as an annexe to a larger church in Hyndland, was gifted to the Polish soldiers stationed in nearby Yorkhill Barracks. The church has since then been largely used by the Polish community, a little haven of home tucked away in Partick.